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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12683672974).jpg 260 <br> PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Mar 19 <br> Thornhill area is in the course of the Creechope Burn at Creechope <br> Linn the scene of the retreat of Balfour of Burley in Old Mor- <br> tality ' Here a small rapid streamlet has cut itself a deep channel <br> among soft sandstones leaving steep cliffs on either side At the <br> entrance of the Linn a short distance above where the Creechope <br> joins the Cample Burn we have purplish flagstones which belong to <br> the Carboniferous age dipping atN 4° S E at an angle of 15°; and <br> the same flagstones are seen in the bed of the stream higher up the <br> Linn at a spot called the Sutor's Seat The deposits which at this <br> spot occur immediately above the Carboniferous flagstones cannot <br> be seen owing to debris ; but at about 9 feet above the flagstones <br> purple clays make their appearance with cream-coloured spots <br> devoid of lamination and fracturing very irregularly These have a <br> thickness of about 6 feet ; and above them are seen the soft red sand- <br> stones attaining a considerable thickness and very much false-bedded <br> See Section fig 2 In the purple clays I was unable to detect any <br> Fig 2 ” Section at Sutor's Seat Creechope Linn near Thornhill <br> Dumfriesshi re <br> d False-bedded sandstones <br> c Purple clays <br> b Not seen <br> a Carboniferous grits <br> fossils The sandstones extend through the whole of the Linn and <br> present the same false-bedded aspect so much so that their apparent <br> directions and dips are not to be depended on At Gatelaw Bridge <br> about a mile north from Creechope Linn the sandstone is extensively <br> worked ; and is here also false-bedded but not to the same extent as <br> at the latter locality Where the inclination is regular the dip is <br> N N W at an angle of 15° ; and at a short distance higher up the <br> Cample Water breccias are seen which seem to underlie the sand- <br> stone of Gatelaw Bridge Columnar basalt with layers of amygdaloid <br> occurs further to the east than the breccias and has furnished the <br> latter with a considerable portion of their contents 35338713 109655 51125 Page 260 Text v 12 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/35338713 1856 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 12 1856 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 35338713 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/35338713 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-02-21 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/12683672974 2015-08-27 12 01 05 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1856 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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